Voronoi tree maps for the visualization of software metrics in software

Voronoi maps for planar sensor networks visualization. Voronoi treemaps for the visualization of software metrics 2005 cached. A software map represents static, dynamic, and evolutionary information of software systems and their software development processes by means of 2d or 3d map oriented information visualization. Contrary to existing rectanglebased treemap layout. Pdf voronoi treemaps for the visualization of software metrics. Stable voronoibased visualizations for software quality monitoring. Pdf visual realism for the visualization of software metrics. Michael balzer and oliver deussen and claus lewerentz, title voronoi treemaps for the visualization of software metrics, booktitle in proc. The 2005 acm symposium on software visualization softvis 05. Companies are grouped into a 2level hierarchy by sector, size of the cells corresponds to the market value of the company, color depicts the pe ratio. Foamtree is a great tool to visualize all kinds of hierarchical data. Visualization of varying hierarchies by stable layout of voronoi. The paper describes voronoi maps a new technique for visualizing sensor networks that can reduced to planar graph.

Contrary to existing rectanglebased treemap layout algorithms, we introduce layouts based on arbitrary polygons that are advantageous with respect to the aspect ratio between width and height of the objects and the identification of boundaries between and within the hierarchy levels in the. In this paper we present a hierarchybased visualization ap proach for software metrics using treemaps. Voronoi tree maps are an important milestone in information visualization, representing a substantial. Voronoi treemaps for the visualization of software metrics citeseerx. It constitutes a fundamental concept and tool in software visualization, software analytics, and software diagnosis. Hierarchical visualization, voronoi treemaps, stable layout, changing hierarchies. Visualization results are presented to show how treemaps, cushions, color, texture, and bump mapping can be used to visualize software metrics of hierarchically organized elements of a software. Stable and predictable voronoi treemaps for software quality. Animated, dynamic voronoi treemaps danyel fisher1 and avneesh sud2. Visualization in the form of voronoi maps as well as treemaps provides a great use of screen space, and at the same time allows us to visualize planar nonhierarchical decentralized topology. The approach of spatial voronoi treemaps is proposed in this paper to eliminate. An approach to generate spatial voronoi treemaps for. An approach to generate spatial voronoi treemaps for points.

Treemaps for the visualization of software metrics. In acm softvis 05 new york, ny, usa, 2005, acm, pp. Each package can contain other packages, classes, and les. Proceedings of the 2005 acm symposium on software visualization softvis 05. Voronoi treemaps for the visualization of software metrics. Stable voronoi treemaps for software system visualization. Voronoi tree maps with circular boundaries abdalla gm ahmed. Its primary applications include risk analysis for and monitoring of code quality, team. Voronoi treemaps can be used to effectively visualize software quality attributes of a given software system. Voronoi treemap visualizations of software metrics are shown in section 7. Each class can contain other classes, methods, and.

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